Ideas Having Sex

34. Bryan Caplan - Voters as Mad Scientists

Jun 19, 2023

01:17:21

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Bryan Caplan

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Myth of the Rational Voter

2min

AI Risk: The Most Reasonable View

2min

The Effects of Intelligence on Self Improvement

2min

The Importance of Rational Irrationality

2min

How to Bet Your House Against a Penny

2min

The Disadvantages of Political Science

2min

The Resistance of Young Economists to Voting

2min

The Importance of Political Rationality in Economics

2min

10.

The Ideological Turing Test

2min

11.

The Ideological Turing Test

2min

12.

The Ideological Turing Test

2min

13.

The Importance of Setting Yourself the Goal of Understanding What They Believe

2min

14.

I'm Too Busy Fighting Tyranny to Feed My Family

5min

15.

How to Fix a Country

2min

16.

The Importance of Space in Housing

2min

17.

The Role of Regulation in Housing

3min

18.

The Negative Population Growth in Japan

2min

19.

The American Revolution: A Traitor's Guide

2min

20.

How Not to Be a Pacivist All About Howard Zinn

3min

21.

How to Maintain Equity in a World of Wickedness

2min

22.

The Simplistic Theory of Left and Right

4min

23.

Mussolini's Anti-Market Status

2min

24.

The Differences Between Left and Right in Texas

3min

25.

The Left Wing of the Democratic Party

2min

26.

The Inertia of Left and Right Coalitions

4min

27.

The Left's View on Respect

4min

28.

The Causal Theory of Public Opinion

2min

29.

How to Be a Socialist in a Capitalist Society

6min

30.

The Freedom to Do What Sounds Wrong

3min

31.

The Unbeatable Case for Free Markets

2min

32.

You Will Not Stampe Me Essays on Nonconformism

2min

Bryan Caplan discusses political irrationality, partisan loyalty, and more.

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Today’s book: Voters as Mad Scientists: Essays on Political Irrationality

Bryan’s recommendations: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction & Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? both by Philip Tetlock

Bryan’s Twitter, Author Page, Substack, and personal website.

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